Nobuko Imai

中文名：今井信子

外文名：Nobuko Imai

國(guó)籍：日本

出生地：日本東京都

生日：1943 年 3 月 18 日

職業(yè)：中提琴家

樂隊(duì)：Vermeer Quartet (1978 年)

教育背景：桐朋學(xué)園大學(xué)， 茱莉亞學(xué)院， 耶魯大學(xué)

今井信子 (Nobuko Imai) 出身桐朋學(xué)園大學(xué)，曾留學(xué)耶魯大學(xué)和朱麗亞音樂院，在陸續(xù)贏得慕尼黑和日內(nèi)瓦大賽金牌之後，成為眾所矚目的中提琴明星演奏家，也任教於海牙和戴特蒙音樂院.......

從藝歷程：Imai began her training at Tokyo's Toho Gakuen School of Music and soon after went to the United States where she studied at the Juilliard School and Yale University. She won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1967 and won highest prize at both the Geneva International Music Competition and ARD International Music Competition at Munich.

She has worked in chamber music projects with artists such as Martha Argerich, Kyung-Wha Chung, Heinz Holliger, Mischa Maisky, Midori,[1] Murray Perahia, Gidon Kremer, Yo Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, András Schiff, Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman, and appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She is a former member of the Vermeer Quartet and is the founder and a member of the Michaelangelo Quartet, where she performs together with Mihaela Martin, Daniel Austrich and Frans Helmerson. For young musicians from Japan and the Netherlands, she founded the East West Baroque Academy.

Her discography includes more than 30 releases on labels such as BIS, Chandos, DG, EMI, Hyperion, and Philips. She has been a recipient of numerous awards including the Avon Arts Award (1993), Japan's Suntory Music Award (1995) and Mainichi Award of Arts (1996). Toru Takemitsu composed for her a Viola Concerto A String around Autumn in 1989.

教學(xué)：Between 1983 and 2003 Imai taught as a Professor at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold. She currently teaches at the Conservatory of Amsterdam (website of conservatory), at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland and at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Musique de Genève in Geneva (website of conservatory).